In: Accounting
At the end of the year, a company offered to buy 4,450 units of
a product from X Company for a special price of $11.00 each instead
of the company's regular price of $17.00 each. The following
information relates to the 62,400 units of the product that X
Company made and sold to its regular customers during the
year:
Per-Unit | Total | ||
Cost of goods sold | $7.80 | $486,720 | |
Period costs | 2.74 | 170,976 | |
Total | $10.54 | $657,696 |
Fixed cost of goods sold for the year were $142,272, and fixed
period costs were $83,616. Variable period costs include selling
commissions equal to 3% of revenue.
6. Profit on the special order is
7. Assume the following two changes for the special order: 1)
variable cost of goods sold will decrease by $0.78 per unit, and 2)
there will be no selling commissions. What would be the effect of
these two changes on the special order profit?
8. There is concern that regular customers will find out about the
special order, and X Company's regular sales will fall by 950
units. As a result of these lost sales, X Company's profits would
fall by
6). Assuming there is excess capacity available for the company due to which there will be no extra burden of fixed costs because fixed costs is already charged on regular orders.
Variable cost = Total cost - Fixed cost
Variable cost of goods sold = $486,720 - $142,272 = $344,448
Variable COGS per unit = $344,448 / 62400 units = $5.52 per
unit
Variable period cost = $ 170,976 - $83,616 = $87,360
Variable period cost per unit = $87,360 / 62400 units = $1.4 per
unit
Calculation of profit of special order:-
Selling Price = $11 per unit
Less: Var. COGS = $5.52 per unit
Less: Var. period cost = $1.4 per unit
Profit per unit = $4.08 per unit
Total profit for 4450 units = $4.08 * 4450 = $18,156
7). Variable COGS for special order = $5.52 - $0.78 = $4.74 per
unit
Variable period cost for special order = $1.4 - ($17 * 3%) = $1.4 -
$0.51 = $0.89 per unit
Calculation of profit of special order:-
Selling Price = $11 per unit
Less: Var. COGS = $4.74 per unit
Less: Var. period cost = $0.89 per unit
Profit per unit = $5.37 per unit
Total profit for 4450 units = $5.37 * 4,450 = $23,896.50
Change in profit due to above changes = $23,893.50 - $18,156=
$5,740.50 (Increase in profit)
8). Loss of 950 units:
Profit fall due to loss of 950 units is = 950 * $4.08 = $3,876